The podcast's first engagement with questions of ‘realism’ in animation takes centre stage in Footnote #24, where Chris and Alex historicise and interrogate the function of realism and hyper-realist traditions within a multitude of media and aesthetic traditions. Topics include hyper-realism’s place in relation to painting and sculpture; the uncanny quality of hyper-realist art and issues of resemblance; the parameters of Disney’s ‘hyper-realist’ animated style against earlier ‘plasmatic’ sensibilities; and how animation’s capabilities for authentically portraying the real are fundamentally tied to its status as a technology of creative representation.

**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**